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Visit MOMA in New York, the Big Apple's Premier Art Gallery

New York is arguably the premier city for Gursky.While the stature of its art
American art; its variety of eclectic collection is staggering, one of the main
galleries always provides something for reasons that MOMA has remained so
the art lover, whether you're a fan of important today is its intriguing
impressionism or post-modern sculpture. architectural landscape. Since 1929, the
Some of New York's most famous galleries museum has shifted its location four
are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the times - three of those in its first year
Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of - before moving to its present permanent
American Art and, perhaps most famously, home between 5th and 6th Avenue. Between
the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).MOMA 2002 and 2004, MOMA was closed for
first opened its doors in 1929 and has renovation, while its building was
been the toast of the modern art world designed and re-imagined by Yoshio
ever since. The first New York gallery to Taniguchi. Taniguchi is the celebrated
dedicate itself solely to modern art - Japanese architect, also responsible for
though it was closely followed by the Tokyo's Nagano Prefectural Museum and the
opening of the Guggenheim in 1936 - Gallery of Horyuji Treasures at the Tokyo
MOMA's first director, Alfred H. Barr Jr. National Museum.When MOMA re-opened in
soon realised the gallery's potential as November 2004, Taniguchi's redesign was
an outlet for new forms of modernist art. initially very controversial; however, it
Barr commented:"This museum is a torpedo has since been lauded as one of New
moving through time, its head the York's most interesting landmarks and
ever-advancing present, its tail the upheld as a bold example of contemporary
ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years architecture, making MOMA in itself a
ago."Nearly 80 years on this still seems piece of art that visitors can enjoy.
to be a very accurate summary of MOMA's MOMA is certainly an essential point to
ambitions and aims. Its current visit when you're on a trip to New York;
collection houses some of the art world's its optimum location means that visitors
most infamous pieces, including works by will find plenty of great hotels near the
iconic American painters Edward Hopper, gallery, such as the luxury Waldorf
Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, as well Astoria, through to other slightly less
as those by celebrated international lavish accomodation options for the
artists such as Vincent van Gogh, budget conscious. So make sure you visit
Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo. MOMA on your next trip to New York - your
Furthermore, its photography collection understanding of the American and
is one of the most important in the world international modern art world will never
hosting works by important photographers be the same again.
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